Amazon Hardware Development Engineer - Wire Harness Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

850094669

Key job responsibilities
- Harnessing design for satellite system requiring interfacing across mechanical, electrical and payload design owners, trading various configurations to identify best overall solution for reliability, manufacturability, test, integration, and cost.
- Support make vs buy decisions, design reviews, and implement manufacturing and integration plans optimized for high rate production.
- Engage various component suppliers and Harnessing manufacturing vendors for component & assembly level qualification.
- Design/develop specifications and produce/procure power/data harnesses which meets electrical design requirements including current rating, targeted power loss, shielding, grounding and EMI/EMC.
- Define and perform/oversee harness qualification and acceptance tests for launch environments and operation through mission life, including test fixture fabrication for prototype evaluations, and deliver all development and flight hardware per vehicle schedules
- Create 3D CAD routings, 2D manufacturing drawings, schematics, and assembly installation drawings.Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
A day in the life
As a Hardware Design Engineer focused on Harness design, you will be working closely with all hardware sub-system and support teams on a daily basis. You will be asked to utilize first principles thinking to help troubleshoot electrical and integration issues that relate to harnessing. You will work to innovate on behalf of our customers and solve complex problems with novel hardware design. You will play an integral part in requirements gathering for harness product development and will have opportunities to influence other engineering teams to develop the best product to delight our customers.

- BS in mechanical, or electrical engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience in the design, development, test, qualification and acceptance tests, workmanship criteria and integration of spacecraft harnessing.
- 3+ years of experience with CAD routing tools
- 1+ years of experience in selection and qualification of components - connectors, backshells, wire, fiber, contacts, splices, solder, shielding, and coax products.
- 1+ years of experience in the selection of wiring based on current de-rating, voltage drop analysis, shielding effectiveness, temperature, environment, outgassing and mechanical strength.

- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in mechanical, electrical, materials engineering or related field
- 3+ years of experience in the design, development, test, qualification and acceptance tests, workmanship criteria and integration of spacecraft harnessing.
- 3+ years experience working with external suppliers to develop/select components for spacecraft design or related industries.
- 1+ years experience working with harness manufacturing to support high rate production.
- Experience in developing mechanical harness routing solutions for dynamic applications including across articulated joints and hinged-line deployments.
- Experience with Siemens NX CAD and formboard creation, Team center PLM and MES systems
- Experienced with Atlassian collaboration tools (Confluence, JIRA)
- Experience with Siemens Capital Software Suite